Notes from a retreat
Our parish RCIA program had a retreat today. Some talks about prayer, some prayer (including Mass and Exposition with Benediction), and a fabulous lunch.
A few random notes from what others said:
In prayer, we are beggars before God; we have nothing and we need everything. But how does our attitude toward the beggars who beg from us affect our attitude toward our own beggarhood?
In the fight against evil, the Christian's weapon is love. The good news: there's an infinite source of love. The bad news: in this world, the weapon of love is the cross.
Faith becomes real faith when we lean on God so far, we would fall over if He weren't there.
We are not all given the charism of healing, but we are all called to bring Jesus to others, and when we bring Jesus we bring healing.